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This report complements Repositioning
Nutrition as Central to Development by looking at
environmental health issues that affect child health
broadly, while also exploring the links through
malnutrition. This report argues that environmental health
interventions are preventive measures that are imperative to
improve child survival with sustainable results in the long
term. Preventive measures, such as improving environmental
conditions are effective in reducing a child's exposure
to a disease agent and thereby averting infection. The
overall aim of this report is to provide information to
decision-makers on the optimal design of policies to help
reduce premature deaths and illness in children under five
years of age. To protect the health, development, and
wellbeing of young children, decision-makers must identify
and reduce environmental risk factors by providing
appropriate interventions that prevent and diminish
exposures. This study is intended to advance the
understanding of what those risk factors are, when and how
to reduce children's exposure to them, and how to
mitigate their consequent health impact.